Archival Spaces 313 Irmgard Keun: Child of all Nations Uploaded 20 January 2023 A couple of weeks ago, my colleague, Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert, announced on Facebook that a previously lost German film from the early 1930s, Eine von uns (1932), starring Brigitte Helm, had turned up on YouTube. The film was an adaption of the sensational,Continue reading “313: Irmgard Keun”
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303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)
Archival Spaces 303 Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022) Uploaded 2 September 2022 In the Summer of 1990, after the fall of Communism, I visited Poland for the first time, training docents for a United States Information Agency exhibit on American cinema in Katowice. On a free day, I asked my driver to take me toContinue reading “303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)“
272: Boschwitz The Passenger
Archival Spaces 272 Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz: The Passenger (1939/2020) Uploaded 25 June 2021 I recently finished reading Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s “lost” novel. Der Reisende, published for the first time in German in 2018, and recently republished in English in a new translation as The Passenger, eighty years after its first quickly forgotten appearance; it has been hailed by critics asContinue reading “272: Boschwitz The Passenger”
267: Ufa’s Aryanization
Archival Spaces 267 The „Aryanization“ of the Ufa Uploaded 16 April 2021 Some historians have always understood the Third Reich as a dictatorship that suppressed democratic institutions and oppressed, even murdered its citizenry without due process, but as the example of Germany’s largest film company, the Universum Film A.G. (Ufa) demonstrated, a significant portion ofContinue reading “267: Ufa’s Aryanization”
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